Bicycle Bandit

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - A man known as the "bicycle bandit," whocommitted nine bank robberies in Spokane from which he fled on abike, has been sentenced to 17 years in federal prison. The U.S. Attorney's Office says 34-year-old Lucas G. Woodard wassentenced Thursday after pleading guilty to the robberies. Woodard robbed nine banks between December 2009 and October2010, when he was arrested after fleeing a Washington Trust Bankbranch.